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Trump divides country, risks destroying great nation

During last year’s presidential election, Donald Trump successfully promoted and implemented the strategy of “divide and conquer.” During the primary and general election campaigns, most political leaders, commentators, news media experts, editorial, highly paid political consultants and others were predicting Donald Trump would not get very far with his “crazy” tactics of attacking and dividing the country with his “outrageous” positions.

Sadly, the results of the Republican primary and the general election clearly demonstrated — without any doubt — that Trump’s “divide and conquer” strategy worked. He was elected the 45th president of the United States by receiving an overwhelming number of the Electoral College votes.

Unfortunately, as president, Mr. Trump is now learning the hard way that “divide and conquer” does not apply or work when you are the leader of the greatest democracy in the world. Winning an election is one thing; leading a nation is another. The result of trying to govern our country by dividing its people will not only lead to a weakening and destabilization of our great nation, it will eventually lead to its destruction.

In Mark 3:24-25, Jesus told the Pharisees: “If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”

William T. Kinaka

Wailuku

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